Candle-holder for christmas-trees



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CANDLE HOLDER FOR CHRISTMAS TREES. No. 395,514. Patented Jan. 1,1889.

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CHRISTOPH REINHARDT, OF NEWARK, NEW' JERSEY.

CANDLE-HOLDER FOR CHRISTMAS-TREES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,514, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed September 20, 1887- Serial No, 250,195. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRIsTorH REINH ARDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (,landle-I-Iolders for Christmas-Trees; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The obj ectof this invention is to provide a candle-holder adapted to be secured to the limbs of ("l1rist1nasa'rees, one of reduced cost and simplicity of construction; and it consists in the improved candle-holder having the arrangements and combinations of parts, such as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures of the drawings, Figure 1. is an elevation of a candle-holder. Fig. 2 is a plan of the bowl thereof; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken through line X, showingthe said holder when the same is provided with a tack for securing the bowl to the tree in lieu of the hook and weighted stem, as shown in Fig. 1.

In said drawings, (1 indicates a bowl adapted to receive the lower end or base of the can dle, the edges of which are upwardly turned, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, to receive the drippings from the candle and prevent the same from dropping directly upon the floor or tree or on the articles placed thereon. Said bowl is adapted to be secured upon the tree in any suitable manner, though I prefer to provide the same with a weighted stem, I), having a hook, 1), adapted to catch upon the limb of the tree. The weight 0 of said stem may be secured thereon in any ordinary manner.

In lieu of the weighted stem 1 may provide the bowl with a stem in the form of a tack, as b in Fig. 3, said tack being preferably soldered to the under side of the bowl. By this c011- struction the said bowl may be secured more rigidly upon the tree. The bowl is preferably of sheet-tin, and has l'leretofore had the upwardly-exten ding fingers soldered thereon.

To reduce the cost of construction and to provide means for holding the candle upon the bowl, that are more perfectly connected with said bowl, I strike in suitable dies the said holding means directly from the material of said bowl, as shown in the figures of the drawings. By striking up the holding-fingers c c from the material of the bowl the cost of construction is very much reduced, quantities considered, and the soldering processes einpioyed in construction heretofore are dispensed with. The said fingers are integral with the said bowl, and said bowl and fingers together form a socket or receptacle for the base of the candle.

I may, as in Fig. l, solder the upper extremity of the stem against one of the fingers, by which construction it is unnecessary to bend the upper extremity of the stem to solderit to the bowl to provide a suitable bearing.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is The combination, with a stem of acandleholder, bent as described, of a sheet-metal plate having its outer portion divided by radial cuts into sections a and e and bent upward, as shown, the central portion of said plate being formed into a drip-bowl and the sections 6 into a candle-holder, as described, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of September, 1887.

CHRISTOPl-l REINHARDT.

Vitnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, CONSTANCE H. BALDWIN. 

